tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719237929065350560.post6867213357752379799..comments2023-05-20T08:51:14.947-04:00Comments on The People In Me: Peter Laughner "Nocternal Digressions"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719237929065350560.post-89418796255428499132016-04-08T22:30:29.343-04:002016-04-08T22:30:29.343-04:00Charlotte Pressler (aka Stella Rayon) now teaches ...Charlotte Pressler (aka Stella Rayon) now teaches English at a college in Florida. I haven't heard from her in awhile, last summer she had been at a conference in Germany.<br />I used to be friends with the then-wife of Russ Williams who was also in at least one of Peter's bands. If anyone knows what happened to Russ, or to Leslie, please let me know. I lost track of her in the 70s but we were close friends in high school. In fact one night when Le's and I were seniors and Russ and Pete juniors we went out to a play--I'm thinking it was Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern are dead--in downtown Cleveland (which was then a real shithole) and to an old fashioned ice cream parlor called Boukair's near the Hanna Theater, it was a great evening.<br />I am still angry at Peter for being so reckless as to lose his life when he was so talented. I do NOT believe he intended to kill himself that night, he'd gotten so drunk/drugged he blacked out for days at a time before, and he DID ask Craig to wake him up. I'd talked to him the evening before and he hadn't sounded down, in fact he did say his therapist had asked him if he thought he needed to go back to the hospital for awhile and he told him (and me) that he did not.<br />IMHO it was 'death by misadventure.'<br />If you haven't yet read "Peter Laughner Is Dead" by Lester Bangs, who later OD'd on Tylenol.<br />Me, I'll be 64 in two weeks. I didn't have Peter's genius IQ or his talent, I quit drinking at 36. Getting old sucks but so does dying at 24 with so much left undone.Xhristofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06341781881883714536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719237929065350560.post-87671615196949536792016-04-08T22:20:45.866-04:002016-04-08T22:20:45.866-04:00I was one of the first people Margaret Laughner ca...I was one of the first people Margaret Laughner called when she found her son Peter dead in bed and I spoke not long after the funeral to Craig Ferrier. I went to high school with Peter, saw him and Charlotte maybe twice between 1969 and 1977 around Coventry, but we had several mutual friends. The story Peter told me was that Mrs. Laughner was manic depressive and Mr Laughner was an alcoholic. Peter had the highest IQ ever recorded in the Cuyahoga Co. School system and was educated as a kid at the U of Chicago lab school. We had a writing class together my senior year at Bay High School in Bay Village OH. In the late spring of 1977 Peter was hospitalized for depression at Fairview General Hospital where I worked which is how we met again. He had been told to stop drinking due to the pancreatitis but did not--I saw him drink champagne in OJ pretending it was pure OJ (till I took a sip), and one night we went out to dinner and he had several mimosas and red wine. His last day he and Craig went for a long ride, he was drinking beer.. They came back to the Laughner's, Peter shot Dilaudid between his toes, and asked Craig to wake him up in a little while but Mrs. Laughner told Craig to leave. <br />I had already left for school (I was commuting to Cleveland State U) when Mrs. Laughner called and told my mother she had gone to wake up Peter and he was dead. My mother told me when I got home that evening.<br />I went to the funeral home but not the funeral. At the viewing they'd dressed Peter in a suit. I had never seen him in anything but black jeans and a black T shirt. <br />I couldn't handle the funeral, stayed home and got ripped on Ouzo and fell over in my parents' bathroom.<br /><br />That's what I heard direct from PETER, and from Craig. I've heard other stories about his last days.<br />I have not seen Craig since 1977, the day I ran into him at Westgate Mall and he told me the above.Xhristofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06341781881883714536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719237929065350560.post-73609248540286344862014-05-27T13:19:42.191-04:002014-05-27T13:19:42.191-04:00idiedforloveat3am: any chance you'd be willing...idiedforloveat3am: any chance you'd be willing to talk more about this letter you speak of? I know Craig Ferrier (Fifth Edition/Mr. Charlie drummer)was supposedly the last person to see PL alive (according to CP), but Craig is MIA possibly deceased. Please drop a line if you find a moment at nblakey at yahoo dot comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05739150530261019176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719237929065350560.post-47843040847273940282013-01-18T09:58:57.638-05:002013-01-18T09:58:57.638-05:00top [url=http://www.001casino.com/]001casino.com[/...top [url=http://www.001casino.com/]001casino.com[/url] hinder the latest [url=http://www.realcazinoz.com/]casino[/url] manumitted no consign bonus at the chief [url=http://www.baywatchcasino.com/]casino games <br />[/url].Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719237929065350560.post-46908291975741960302012-02-24T23:55:20.496-05:002012-02-24T23:55:20.496-05:00http://drfaustroll.blogspot.com/2012/02/peter-laug...http://drfaustroll.blogspot.com/2012/02/peter-laughner-last-recordings-june-21.html<br /><br />I have found it!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719237929065350560.post-18009807366920585172010-08-18T05:04:37.321-04:002010-08-18T05:04:37.321-04:00Good post and this post helped me alot in my colle...Good post and this post helped me alot in my college assignement. 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So I like the way you are writingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719237929065350560.post-53825484860788511442009-08-27T00:23:30.153-04:002009-08-27T00:23:30.153-04:00Just wanted to edify that Peter Laughner died at h...Just wanted to edify that Peter Laughner died at his parents' house in Northern Ohio in 1977. He had a nice relationship with them during his short 24 years, but they were kind enough to soundproof his bedroom walls. There are several other tapes made in that bedroom that are available. 'Nocturnal Digressions' was recorded the night before he died but I'm convinced he did not take his own life unless you consider his entire life a slow suicide. Also he mailed a letter to a friend the night before expressing his desire to move to the Ohio countryside. He died of acute pancreatitis and was drinking, as he mentions, the night before he died (which really pissed off Lester Bangs). He was an alcoholic and drug-addict and his thin-shadowed body disappeared with morning light. May someone bless his weary soul. <br /><br />BTW, Laughner was also a member of Television but was kicked out for pulling a gun on Verlaine. He was also in: Mr. Charlie, The Blue Drivers, Friction, Cinderella Backstreet and another one I can't remember. Peace.idiedforloveat3amhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09200202918284996601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719237929065350560.post-63736868644357345842009-04-24T10:01:00.000-04:002009-04-24T10:01:00.000-04:00Anonymous: Richard Hell played Blank Generation wi...Anonymous: Richard Hell played Blank Generation with both Television and the Heartbreakers before doing it with the Voidoids.styreneboynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719237929065350560.post-6996137974247393932009-03-10T21:30:00.000-04:002009-03-10T21:30:00.000-04:00"Blank Generation" isn't by Television. It's by Ri..."Blank Generation" isn't by Television. It's by Richard Hell, and the famous version of it is by him with his band the Voidoids (there's apicture of Laughner with Hell on the cover of Clinton Heylin's book <I>From the Velvets to the Voidoids</I>). Thanks for tip about this recording. I must get it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719237929065350560.post-11542318058003271072008-08-11T19:01:00.000-04:002008-08-11T19:01:00.000-04:00i will try to upload a couple of my favorite songs...i will try to upload a couple of my favorite songs via my roommate's computer. Mine bit the dust. Won't even boot. No guarantees. i'm not even sure if i have a hardcopy of the album at this point.<BR/><BR/>i don't know if i trust this website, but it looks like you can purchase a recording of the album for 12 bucks: http://www.handsomeproductions.com/records.htm<BR/><BR/>kyle.Kyle Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13886459716576390062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719237929065350560.post-17481459109659999982008-08-03T19:12:00.000-04:002008-08-03T19:12:00.000-04:00Hey, can you upload 'Nocturnal Digressions' somewh...Hey, can you upload 'Nocturnal Digressions' somewhere (i.e. rapidshare) and e-mail me the link so I can listen to it?Αλγλhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11137486655971132801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719237929065350560.post-51490805109481278342008-07-03T10:52:00.000-04:002008-07-03T10:52:00.000-04:00best fucking picture ever.(http://i124.photobucket...best fucking picture ever.<BR/><BR/>(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p12/songforsylvia/themoonseeds.jpg)psychedelic elvishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05089465227445616371noreply@blogger.com